{"id":616948,"date":"2026-02-22T03:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:14:35","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-poll-majority-of-fans-want-to-push-for-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616948\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks Poll: Majority of fans want to push for playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">In this week\u2019s Tuesday Tracker and our SB Nation Reacts survey, we asked you about tanking for a higher draft choice versus trying to make the postseason, plus solicited a few opinions on the newest Bucks. Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Only one in five of our respondents wants the team to shut things down to improve their lottery position, while nearly 70% want Milwaukee to go for the best playoff spot they can get.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Early impressions of Ousmane Dieng are good, as 89% of voters want the Bucks to retain him this summer as a restricted free agent. A similar 90% would like Dieng to be a full-time starter once Giannis is back from injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">93% of fans polled want Cam Thomas to stick around next year too, and 47% would give him upwards of the $6.1m taxpayer midlevel exception when he becomes an unrestricted free agent in July. 18% would only put forth the smallest non-minimum contract the Bucks can offer, which amounts to a small raise on his current salary with Non-Bird rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Unlike Dieng, 70% feel that Thomas should come off the bench, even when Giannis is healthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jon Horst\u2019s approval rating continues to rise, as he\u2019s now above 50% for the first time since November 25th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thanks again for voting! Check back on Tuesday for another slate of questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this week\u2019s Tuesday Tracker and our SB Nation Reacts survey, we asked you about tanking for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,959,568,107,102,121,3871,6,76,6609,361],"class_list":{"0":"post-616948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-cam-thomas","11":"tag-getty-images","12":"tag-giannis","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","15":"tag-milwaukeebucks","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-orlando-magic","18":"tag-ousmane-dieng","19":"tag-the-bucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116112108112468646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}